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South Africa: Imports

Millions of local currency · 1826–2025 · 200 observations · forecasts to 2031 · imports

2025
2.25 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+2.7%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+5.8%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$126 billionUS dollars

Imports

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100k10M1B100B10T1850190019502000South AfricaSouth Africa
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20313,218,036Forecast
20303,033,253Forecast
20292,858,989Forecast
20282,695,450Forecast
20272,550,274Forecast
20262,411,485Forecast
20252,254,398
20242,195,064
20232,282,041
20222,093,820
20211,550,042
20201,289,656
20191,501,698
20181,447,445
20171,330,276
20161,318,643

Sources

  • Mitchell1826–2010
  • UN Comtrade1908–1960
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1911–2013
  • Ellison, Lee & O'Rourke1925–1936
  • Albers1925–1936
  • Historical Financial Statistics1936–1946
  • South African Reserve Bank1946–2025
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1993–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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South Africa documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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